How to get wheat straw bales to burn in biomass boilers.

[ILovebaling]

As above. Couple of customers tried to burn wheat in the past but struggle. One is pretty desperate to find a solution as not got enough OSR to burn this year. Anyway to make it urn well in the boilers?

 

[Hesston4860s]

Pour Petrol on it !.

 

[Exfarmer]

The bale must not be too tight!
better to actually have a device to break it up before it enters the combustion chamber.
I used to have a Farm 2000 and trying to burn tight small bales would ensure low water temps and lots of ash.
The air cannot get into the bale, so it just carbonises

 

[Andrew]

Assuming you’re talking square bales? Round here they tend to go for 3x3 bales 4ft long baled loose, so they can break up in the firebox.

 

[ILovebaling]

Assuming you’re talking square bales? Round here they tend to go for 3x3 bales 4ft long baled loose, so they can break up in the firebox.

Any shape. Never had success getting wheat bales to burn. Osr and beans no bother. Will try down the route of making some particularly soft rounds and squares and see where that gets us.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

What boiler?

ideally needs to be rained on to wash out the potash.

too tight and it’s like burning a yellow pages

too wet and it smokes a lot.

 

[Still Farming]

Roller round balers better than belt bales as softer centres mainly.

 

[organicguy]

I think Vicon balers had the ability to make a soft centre at whatever size you wanted. If you did that would it be able to burn from inside and outside then?

 

[ILovebaling]

What boiler?

ideally needs to be rained on to wash out the potash.

too tight and it’s like burning a yellow pages

too wet and it smokes a lot.

It will be a farm 2000 one I believe. That will be why it need to be weathered as some other people have suggested. Thing is up here people don't like to let things get wet cos it's a pain in the behind to dry out. Thanks for the advice though [emoji106]

 

[ILovebaling]

I think Vicon balers had the ability to make a soft centre at whatever size you wanted. If you did that would it be able to burn from inside and outside then?

Going to try putting the rounds into soft centre mode and see if that helps.

 

[KB6930]

I've not done any for a few years now but I used to help a local lad out if he was too busy and the farmers always wanted them as tight as possible to the point he had to get rid of his krone variable chamber as the bales were too soft he had to go back to a welger

 

[ILovebaling]

I've not done any for a few years now but I used to help a local lad out if he was too busy and the farmers always wanted them as tight as possible to the point he had to get rid of his krone variable chamber as the bales were too soft he had to go back to a welger

Tight wheat bales won't burn for love nor money. Have to slacken the rounds off to half in osr even. This is customers requests not my general baling practice mind!

 

[KB6930]

Tight wheat bales won't burn for love nor money. Have to slacken the rounds off to half in osr even. This is customers requests not my general baling practice mind!

I've no idea of the make of burner but the farmer that we were doing it for was always out checking they were as hard as could be

 

[Doing it for the kids]

It will be a farm 2000 one I believe. That will be why it need to be weathered as some other people have suggested. Thing is up here people don't like to let things get wet cos it's a pain in the behind to dry out. Thanks for the advice though [emoji106]

If it looks like Thomas the tank engine it will be. thats true, playing the drying game is never fun. Depending on when he installed his boiler and what size it is there could be other fuel options much better...

Going to try putting the rounds into soft centre mode and see if that helps.

burn them flat top and bottom, they go better than flat facing out

I've no idea of the make of burner but the farmer that we were doing it for was always out checking they were as hard as could be

what colour? If they are that tight he must have had a shredder, can’t get air penetration into bale as they are

 

[KB6930]

If it looks like Thomas the tank engine it will be. thats true, playing the drying game is never fun. Depending on when he installed his boiler and what size it is there could be other fuel options much better...



burn them flat top and bottom, they go better than flat facing out



what colour? If they are that tight he must have had a shredder, can’t get air penetration into bale as they are

Black I think it's one of them that you shove a bale in a massive door it would rake a 6ft bale

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Black I think it's one of them that you shove a bale in a massive door it would rake a 6ft bale

yeah they are polish ones.

straw works but it’s a lot of faff, gave it up after 4 yrs, burn pallets now

 

[ILovebaling]

yeah they are polish ones.

straw works but it’s a lot of faff, gave it up after 4 yrs, burn pallets now

Man was burning pallets but can't get them now

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Depends on location, I buy it in by the artic Load now